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Everything you would expect from Chaaya Reef Ellaidhoo (Formerly Ellaidhoo Tourist Resort)...
Land Sports : If you feel like it, you can join our staff for a game of football, volleyball, badminton or table tennis.
Water Sports : Ellaidhoo Water Sports Centre is located in Maagaa island (our sister island just 10 minutes boat ride away) and offers wind surfing, catamaran sailing, water skiing, jet skiing, knee boarding, wake boarding, banana riding and fun tube riding.
Diving : Ellaidhoo has one of the best house reefs of any resort island in the Maldives, just 20 metres away from the beach. Lobsters, turtles, white tip and grey reef sharks, jack fish, barracudas and tuna fish, just to name a few, can be observed among the beautiful multi-coloured soft corals of the house reef. If you are lucky, you may also see manta and eagle rays passing by. To the south of the island there is a vertical drop-off up to 25 metres with caves at three different levels starting from 6 metres. There is also a small wreck providing shelter for all kinds of small and large fish. Tourists from resort islands as far as North Male’ Atoll visits on diving excursions to see the spectacular house reef of Ellaidhoo.
Half day and full day diving excursions are organised to visit some of the best dive sites in the Maldives such as Fish Head, Maya Thila, Halaveli Wreck (sting ray city II) and Fesdhoo Wreck. Day and night non-limited diving on the house reef is also available for experienced divers.
Sport Centre : It has variety of sports both indoor and outdoor games, and here some of the facilities and activities are :
- Gym Work out
- Aerobics
- Spinning Sauna & Jacuzzi
- Billiards
- Squash
- Tennis
- Table Soccer
Stress relieving Thai-Massage which is available with a Complimentary Steam Bath & Jacuzzi, experiences on your own to make your holiday comfort package
Entertainment : To make your holiday more enjoyable, we organise weekly entertainment programs at the main bar including disco, live music and movies.
Excursions : There are nearly 1200 small islands and an abundance of beautiful coral reefs in the Maldives. To give you the opportunity of visiting some of these islands and reefs, we organise weekly excursion programs.
- Island Hopping : Full day excursion to an uninhabited island and a resort island, with BBQ lunch included.
- Visit Hangnameedhoo : Half-day trip to an inhabited island where you can experience the daily life of local people.
- Snorkelling Trip : Half-day snorkelling on the house reefs of two resort islands.
- Snorkelling Safari : Half-day snorkelling on some of the reefs near Ellaidhoo.
- Sunset Fishing : Fishing on a boat at a nearby reef at sunset, followed by a BBQ dinner. Likely catches include snappers, jack fish and groupers.
- Night Fishing : Fishing on a boat at a nearby reef late in the evening, with a BBQ dinner on the following day. Likely catches include snappers, jack fish and groupers.
- Morning Fishing : Trolling for fish early in the morning, with BBQ dinner on the same day included. Wahoo, barracuda, sailfish dolphin fish etc. are commonly caught during morning fishing.
- Souvenir Shopping : The island boutique offers a variety of souvenirs, post-cards, T-shirts, colourful tropical clothes, ornaments and many more.
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